Rockhound,
I agree with you. Perhaps my post should have been a little longer. My feeling of sadness was for the passengers, sitting there trusting the pilot to get them safely to the start of their trek.
I've had 20-30 hours as a passenger in a DHC-6 in the Canadian north (back in the days when Omega was a big deal), so I have some knowledge of what you are talking about.
It stuns me that a pilot on a VFR flight would deliberately fly into cloud near the threshold of a very tricky airport. I wonder if we will ever find out what was going on - was there some unofficial GPS approach procedure that routinely worked well and suckered this pilot into making an approach in worse conditions than previously experienced?